Comment trouvez-vous ce Saint là..., plate 80 from Les bons bourgeois (The Good Bourgeois)
Honoré Daumier, Comment trouvez-vous ce Saint là..., plate 80 from Les bons bourgeois (The Good Bourgeois), 1847, lithograph on newsprint, Gift of Mr. Richard Prasch, public domain, 71.11.3
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- Title
Comment trouvez-vous ce Saint là..., plate 80 from Les bons bourgeois (The Good Bourgeois)
- Related Titles
series (original language): Les bons bourgeois
series (translated): The Good Bourgeois
- Artist
- Date
1847
- Medium
lithograph on newsprint
- State
2nd state
- Catalogue Raisonné
Delteil 1556
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 10 1/8 in x 8 1/4 in; sheet: 13 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription: - Comment trouvez-vous ce Saint là .....je me flatte que je n'ai pas fait du ponsif.....// Le Bourgeois.- Je suis de votre avis, un saint ne doit jamais avoir l'air poussif......, printed, lower middle Language: French
inscription: Imp Aubert & Cie. [ie as superscript], printed, lower right Language: French
inscription: Chez Aubert. Pl. de la Bourse., printed, lower left Language: French
numbered; signature: 1134 // h.D., printed, lower right, in stone
numbered: No. [o as superscript] 80., printed, upper right
inscription: LES BONS BOURGEOIS., printed, upper middle Translation: The Good Bourgeois Language: French
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
planographic print
- Culture
French
- Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Richard Prasch
- Accession Number
71.11.3
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
—What do you think of that saint there.... I tried to not make !T!him look too conventional.... !T!—The bourgeois: I quite agree, a saint never should look short winded. !T!Published December 31, 1847, in Le Charivari
This caricature is a play on words in French; the artist explains that he tried to avoid making the saint look too conventional—ponsif—a term that the bourgeois gentleman misunderstands as poussif—short-winded or wheezy. Daumier uses the linguistic gap to point to the gulf of understanding between the bohemian artist and the oblivious bourgeois man.
- Exhibitions
2013 In the Studio: Reflections on Artistic Life Portland Art Museum